Political sentimentalism was never enough to overturn patriarchal beauty standards.

I saw the final (but is it?) episode of Gavin & Stacey a few days before most at a star strewn screening in a flashy London ...

And thus Chanukah, which usually takes place somewhere between late November and mid-December, so all eight nights are done ...

December comes in, Richard Curtis comes on. And for that dizzy month, when you go out into the world, you are able to believe that, twinkling in the lights over streets, “love actually is all around”.

Keir Starmer is paying the price for failing to distance himself from a Corbyn-era promise. By David Gauke It is the season of goodwill and all that and one should try to end the political year with ...

As an extension of Carrie Bradshaw, she straddles the middle and high brow. By Ella Dorn The literary world is in uproar because the Booker Prize has its newest celebrity judge. It’s Sex and the City ...

There are countless reasons to believe that he is not the right person for the job – not least when candidates with an established relationship with the new American right were eschewed for a ...

The agreed pause in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has been repeatedly violated. By Sebastian Shehadi The relief that swept over Lebanon after a 60-day ceasefire deal was agreed in late ...

In Stranger Than Fiction, the American editor Edwin Frank seeks to tell the story of the modern novel through an eccentric, provoking list of 32 books. By John Mullan The photo of the author on the ...

Nobody expected the apocalypse, but once the Void opened, life on Earth would never be the same again. By Kate Atkinson This short fiction by Kate Atkinson was originally published in the 19 December ...